Fernando Alonso said he was “lucky to be alive” after surviving one of the most spectacular accidents the sport has seen for years in the Australian Grand Prix.
Alonso’s McLaren was completely destroyed in the 200mph crash, which saw his car barrel roll across the...

As someone who still remembers the dank, beery odour that used to drift across the stands at Maine Road, back in the days when the football could be supremely miserable and the idea of corporate hospitality was often an unplugged fridge stocked with cans of warm St...

Claudio Ranieri has urged his title chasers to “put a turbo behind us” after conceding that 79 points will not be enough to land the Premier League crown.
Ranieri is convinced Leicester City will require more points than the target he set in January, as he moves c...

Roger Federer is to play in the Miami Open which starts next week, his agent Tony Godsick has announced.
The 17-times grand slam champion had surgery on a torn knee cartilage last month and has not played since losing to Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals of the Au...

Arsène Wenger launched the most defiant defence yet of his Arsenal career on Tuesday night and told his critics that he had never felt more motivated, dedicated – or pressurised – to deliver success.
“I built the club, and the way I did it was with hard work,” sai...

I’m standing by a locker room inside Yankee Stadium as NYC FC host a special event for journalists, and I am listening to David Villa give one last interview before we spend some time together. Two things come to mind as I wait for the man they call El Guaje, or Th...

There have been many false starts in the story of Louis van Gaal’s Manchester United, but not many that felt as desolate for his club as a hopeless night in the Europa League when they were a distant second in this historic European match-up of the two deposed king...

Sepp Blatter expected his work at Fifa to receive greater praise at last month’s presidential elections and says he wants due recognition in the future.
The former Fifa president, who celebrated his 80th birthday on Thursday, also claimed he had discovered who his...

Maria Sharapova’s confession was an unprecedented event in the history of tennis – and stems from one of the biggest positive drug tests in any sport since a red-eyed Ben Johnson started this grisly ball rolling in 1988.
Look at the history of tennis’s doping conv...

Conor McGregor tapped the mat and everything changed. Gone was the 20-story banner on the MGM Grand he wanted, the $1bn in revenues he was going to deliver the UFC and the fictitious fight of the century that he planned against himself. In the days before UFC 196 M...